Bats Take Flight
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You’d think that bats and birds fly in similar ways-in fact, many scientists used to consider bat flight a minor variation of bird flight. But, with the aid of high-speed video, researchers have discovered that bat flight is much more complex than initially thought.
Produced by Luke Groskin
Music by Audio Network
Footage ands Stills
Provided by Kenny Breuer and Sharon Swartz Joe Bahlman, Atilla Bergou, David Boerma, Rhea von Busse, Jorn Cheney, Nick Hristov, Tatjana Hubel, Nicolai Konow, Lauren Reimnitz, Andrea Rummel, Cosima Schunk, Dave Willis, Dan Riskin, Hamid Vejdani.
Bat Research supported by NSF, AFOSR and Brown University
All procedures involving animals were performed in an AAALAC-accredited facility in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and approved by the Brown University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
@openskies11 5 жыл бұрын
How can you not fall in love with that face at the beginning?!?!
@johncgibson4720 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, so cute, let me eat that foot.
@shogunatepena5302 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, until it gives you the COVID.
@sembat7852 3 жыл бұрын
because of the face here: 6:00
@dipanjanghosal1662 2 жыл бұрын
@@sembat7852 ahahaha
@wenthulk8439 5 ай бұрын
They are very cute.
@Kagedtiger 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my GOD bats do little pushups into the air to get off the ground. XD That's AMAZING.
@mgarcia 3 жыл бұрын
that's a quad launch
@NoBaconForYou 3 жыл бұрын
It's also how pterosaurs took off. Bird's have to use their wings to lift themselves off the ground, which is why bird's have never and can never be as big as pterosaurs. Bats on the other hand.. All bats have to do is get bigger than birds of prey, and they will have room to evolve into plane sized superbats
@antoniosemeraro1911 2 жыл бұрын
@@NoBaconForYou actually birds also jump and starts to fly
@paulg3336 2 жыл бұрын
@@mgarcia Actually ,the hind legs don't add much ,if any, energy to the launch. Bats have little strength in their legs ,the muscles have been reduced to save weight.
@niklasstone7919 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe birds can't reach the sizes ptesosaurs did, because they are locked in their theropod bodyplan. They have to grow very muscular legs to jump into the air, the bigger they get. Bats use all four to launch themselves into the air and by doing so, benefit from their armmusculature, which they have for flight anyway, much more than Birds can. Giraffe sized azhdarchids once taking off like bats must have been majestic
@TuberoseKisser 6 жыл бұрын
Those first couple of seconds was precious
@GandalfTheTsaagan 6 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I hope that artists and animators use this research for things like dragons and demons in movies, games and so on And can't wait to see the applications of this knowledge in technology
@TuberoseKisser 6 жыл бұрын
aleix1203 fesco made a functional flying bat
@GandalfTheTsaagan 6 жыл бұрын
I've seen some robots I wonder if this can be applied to daily life technology somehow
@dustinbaugh6263 5 жыл бұрын
That is exactly why I was watching this video! I'm a little confused as to how the mechanics work, though. Because, to me, it looks like the way the bat flaps its wings it should be pushing the bat backwards...obviously I'm missing something.
@ricosuave4275 5 жыл бұрын
Yes absolutely beautiful video. I just love the blending of art, science, and engineering. I'm doing dragon art and animation myself and these videos are useful. Is there any more research material I can study on.... ie.: more animation videos, and more kinematics/dynamics studies on bats? Thanks! Keep up the good work!
@bleak3304 4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see this kind of work done with azhdarchids
@hundejason 6 жыл бұрын
This channel is truly a hidden gem, the production quality is superb
@janetwashington9425 4 жыл бұрын
Qa htutuht by nitkykyhvjh. 7vd. X ex VCR. Ikk
@candacewesley4794 3 жыл бұрын
@@janetwashington9425 Sir?
@jivejunior8753 6 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage! I would like to see an in-depth comparison between the flight strategies of birds, bats, the many and various insects, and even reconstructed pterosaurs! I think this subject deserves way more attention than it receives!
@RusTsea196T 2 жыл бұрын
Watching the bats push off with their arms for take-off from the ground (similar to how pterosaurs are theorized to have done) makes me wonder why we've never had bats the size of pterosaurs?
@cooper9099 Жыл бұрын
We do have bats the size of pterosaurs! Pterosaurs varied in size, but if you mean big - we have big bats!
@Chaotic-warp Жыл бұрын
Bat bones, like mammal bones, are a great deal heavier than bird bones and pterosaur bones (which are somewhat hollow). Pterosaurs also had air sacs which allow them to both better breathe and stay airborne.
@davelundergoesunder 2 жыл бұрын
For the last few weeks, I have been going out at dusk each evening to observe bats. I stand in my driveway and am absolutely amazed by them! Sometimes, they will dive and come within inches of my head. I'm never concerned because I know that they are extremely skilled flyers. The most amazing thing is, they are not flying by sight but by sonar! The variety of bat that I am seeing is only about the size of a sparrow.
@marissashantez6051 Жыл бұрын
little brown bat
@cobaltblue2756 Жыл бұрын
They do have sonar but they're not blind they still uses eyesight
@youtubestudiosucks978 9 ай бұрын
Dude, you should try and avoid bats, most bats are asymptomatic carriers for rabies and you usually dont notice when you get bit by them.
@davelundergoesunder 9 ай бұрын
@@youtubestudiosucks978 Thanks
@tristanwegner Жыл бұрын
Wow, so interesting that the skin in the batwing actually contracts with muscle cells with each flap. That must be one of the secrets how the can fly so silently. Even with extreme turns one meter away, I cannot hear any flight noise from my local bats.
@richarddr1234 3 жыл бұрын
Bat flight is incredible. One questions why they can't outcompete birds and diversify from their "nocturnal-flying-animal" niche into incredible diurnal forms.
@Chaotic-warp Жыл бұрын
Heavier bones probably
@brokerken 3 жыл бұрын
This is amazing! Bats are incredible creatures!
@limerence8365 4 жыл бұрын
I can't believe people associate bats with spooky stuff like vampires. Sure they carry live in caves, only come out at night, carry diseases (which they are immune to so we could study them to become immune ourselves), drink blood (they rarely bite humans) , and are all black and bony but just look at them. They're so cute, I just want to cuddle it. And when they cling to stuff it looks like they're hugging it. Aawww.
@t3rrortoff33 4 жыл бұрын
only three bat species drink blood. all others eat insects or fruit
@melessalou 6 жыл бұрын
Fascinating...and adorable
@its__rain Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video! I’m a developing game artist who is extremely into flight and the mechanics behind it. I want to create games with flinging creatures and being able to see how a creature like a bat flies in reality. I see so many games where the flights of let’s say a dragon, just feels so fake or the hovering just doesn’t feel natural. When I create my own game I want everything to feel as though it is real. I really appreciate the work that you guys are doing here
@mrJety89 6 жыл бұрын
I look forward to seeing some of this research pan out in the next Bat-man movie.
@richallenxbox1976 5 жыл бұрын
PMSFL you do of course realise that Batman can't really fly right? He just uses the big cape to "glide"?
@pajimacas 3 жыл бұрын
Yup, if they would ever have Kirk Langstrom as one of the villains, that would be great!!!
@judahbaggerman2294 4 жыл бұрын
if they didnt have wings they would look like hamster with long arms
@tree_kanagarroo 5 жыл бұрын
this vid deserves waaay more views
@aaronburratwood.6957 8 ай бұрын
I love bats, I have rescued two sets of baby bats that the homeowners blew out of their roof vents at the end of their houses. I took them back to my house with some of the older bats and they moved right in and my amount of mosquito bites went down a bunch.
@EyelessEntity 4 жыл бұрын
2:44 he tiny, but he ripped
@SparklySpencer 3 жыл бұрын
Was just watching about giant pterosaurs, and seeing how bats fly makes them so much more interesting
@tilseptember 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating. I never realized that their wings are attached almost to their “ankles”. I wondered if that difference had any significance but I guess not because you didn’t even acknowledge it.
@littlemrpinkness295 3 жыл бұрын
But that is how our knowledge builds up, tiny fact by tiny fact, into vast volumes of data. It's remarkable, really, how just being able to store information has made so much of a difference. Science is really just a series of observations. We are very clever.
@pw7225 6 жыл бұрын
Amazing video, thanks, SciFri
@SirCharles12357 6 жыл бұрын
One of your best videos! Excellent editing and camera work! Thanks!!
@kalynmiller666 3 жыл бұрын
These flying mammals can be stars of a Halloween vampire movie
@motisaleminik1137 6 жыл бұрын
This research is outstanding. I look forward to utilize the science behind bat's flight in the combination of design and technology. Thanks for sharing.
@--Paws-- 6 жыл бұрын
...if only pterosaurs still exist
@xehP 4 жыл бұрын
they're reptiles nigga, bats are mammals.
@beckyfrancis8232 4 жыл бұрын
If they did then I would risk trying to befriend one so I can ride it XDD
@GreenAgouti 3 жыл бұрын
@@beckyfrancis8232 thatd probably only work with the huge ones, and those would proabbly be the most dangerous
@NeatCreeper 9 ай бұрын
@@GreenAgoutiactually it wouldn’t work at all, even the big ones wouldn’t be able to hold or pick up a human. They could still eat you tho if they wanted too
@dunxelll 3 жыл бұрын
This are the kind of people who need more funding. Even some who hates science would be glued to this.
@rallycharly 10 ай бұрын
Thanks to these little guys to teach us so much , they are incredible .
@STOPTHEHATE70 4 жыл бұрын
You 2 are such a blessing to this great earth, AWESOME JOB, GOD BLESS.
@briennaasher26 2 жыл бұрын
Love this video, great footage! Bats are neat!
@aboomination897 2 жыл бұрын
Next art project: Bats - thanks for uploading this!
@onnevankenobe Жыл бұрын
the take offs are amazing and very interesting for palentologists studing pterodactyls, I guess!
@mamallama7708 2 жыл бұрын
I love bats 💖 flying puppers 🤩 !
@nikmulakkal6414 6 жыл бұрын
Amazing work!
@jrkc9218 11 ай бұрын
That is astounding. Compared to birds it seems erratic but really they are the acrobats. Amazing!
@aigan3 4 жыл бұрын
Are they more silent in flight than an owl....
@yizharamir5915 6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely awesome video.
@jasminnemcdonald94A 3 жыл бұрын
I'm actually watching this video because I'm studying how a vampire flies while in bat form.
@yogeshmittal111 24 күн бұрын
thanku guys so much
@EnigmaEngineering 4 жыл бұрын
Great video. Such awesome animals. Thank you
@Knappa22 Жыл бұрын
I still don’t think they look as graceful as a bird in flight. Look at how a hawk glides, hovers and dives. Look at how a humming bird can stay almost stationary while it feeds.
@Primatologie Ай бұрын
Bats can do all of that actually. I think the only thing they can’t do is soar, which is gliding upwards on warm air columns. Probably what you meant when you mentioned hawks gliding. And the fastest bat can fly up to 100 miles per hour horizontally.
@AkiAmeko 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this excellent resource for an art student
@jcol3000 6 жыл бұрын
That launch @2:37!
@tootbender6935 5 жыл бұрын
Ikr, I thought because their keels were small they didn't have the strength to takeoff from the ground!
@Gorgonath 5 жыл бұрын
@@tootbender6935 I am not an expert, but I believe that bat to be a vampire bat, which is one of the only 2 specie of but that can walk, and also jump, so yeah very few bats can do that i think.
@thechickenwizard8172 4 жыл бұрын
That vault is similar to the way that pterosaurs would have taken off from the ground
@voronOsphere 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Wonderful animals!
@mathscraw3741 Жыл бұрын
What an amazing creature! I really amazed by its elaborate form. And the another thing is, nature carrying all of these variations of performing of same tasks is probably the most attractive thing about evolutional progress.
@thepleasureofscience4660 5 жыл бұрын
Wooòow amazing close view for bats kinematic in flying 👍👍, thanks for sharing the video
@ZANTLOZ 6 жыл бұрын
This is super cool
@MsInunnguaq 6 жыл бұрын
Amazingly interesting video!
@shogunatepena5302 3 жыл бұрын
2:40 I thought bats could not fly from the ground. They first have to drop a few feet in order to attain enough lift.
@Kiki-hv7dt 2 жыл бұрын
Depends on the species!!
@teaartist6455 2 жыл бұрын
It depends and I don't think it's a matter of needing to drop a few feet as much as needing the necessary airspace to start flapping.
@shannonnakashima7714 2 жыл бұрын
@@teaartist6455 the megabats, ie fruit bats or “flying foxes”, need enough drop to generate lift, so they do need enough air to flap, and for the air to get under their open wings. The microbats probably need much less, or any drop because they’re so small and light. They’re all absolutely amazing!!! 🙂
@teaartist6455 Жыл бұрын
I've been watching the bat rescue and apparently some individual megabats (mainly young, strong males) do manage to start from the ground!
@riteshtiwari8473 4 жыл бұрын
Best explain.thank you
@florinacruz5563 4 жыл бұрын
A job I never knew I wanted until now... Welp I still got 6 years of school to go :(
@Arannath 4 жыл бұрын
« So what is it you do then? » « Oh you know. Shooting lasers at bats on a treadmill. »
@jerrylu3740 4 жыл бұрын
That bats back muscle is rip
@Vejur9000 Ай бұрын
Mesmerizing masters of flight by echolocation, the Bat.
@glidinggraphite5525 3 жыл бұрын
2:36 i never knew they used therye arms to take off
@Derpster2493 6 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Thanks.
@NoneRain_ 4 ай бұрын
pretty cool
@batsrule 5 жыл бұрын
THANKS. appreciate the batty info
@emeraldqueen1994 5 жыл бұрын
Megabats Microbats I love your profile picture and your name May I recommend the KZfaq channel Megabattie (a bat 🦇 rescuer shows what it takes to get injured bats back to the wild) (Be prepared for cuteness overload)
@batsrule 5 жыл бұрын
@@emeraldqueen1994 thanks. I am aware. Meg rescues in new south wales and I am queensland.
@maj-lenaskagerlund3118 Жыл бұрын
FASCINATING 😳🥰👌💕
@solcreed10 Жыл бұрын
2:37 can any tell me what kind of bat is that? sine most bats can't fly directly from the ground, right?
@mysticalstar2945 3 жыл бұрын
I've learnt so much
@BariumCobaltNitrog3n 6 жыл бұрын
So at the end she said, FIRST!
@aubreybowen5740 4 жыл бұрын
Hey I'm trying to get ahold of a bat specialist, does anyone know a way for me to get connected with them?
@yogeshmittal111 24 күн бұрын
plz do fn+f3
@doodltoon9538 Жыл бұрын
I love bats so much. They remind me of tiny dragons
@farsszghooul4149 4 жыл бұрын
what the name of this bat ?
@mobilemollusc615 6 жыл бұрын
Wow
@gordonp.sawyer3078 2 жыл бұрын
I would think a bat is more like a flying parachute with more control of the flex in the fabric of the shute
@okboomer9381 4 жыл бұрын
0:00-0:02 we all said awwww
@enhypenblahblaj Жыл бұрын
0:11 0:18 0:34 4:03
@kalynmiller666 3 жыл бұрын
Experiment if a bite from a vampire bat can turn you into an actual vampire
@TuberoseKisser 6 жыл бұрын
What bat sp are they using in the tests?
@RobChurch1988 6 жыл бұрын
looks like a flying fox and other fruit bats
@jBaO493 4 жыл бұрын
bats jump with their arms lmao
@0utSideTheBox Жыл бұрын
Did all the computers you use for this evolve, or were they CREATED? What have you ever seen evolve? Put your thinking caps on...
@brendenowen2609 6 жыл бұрын
would ya look at that I learned something :)
@yogeshmittal111 24 күн бұрын
plz
@anneterry3660 Жыл бұрын
Unfairly and terribly demonized in film and books, these beautiful mammals are a keystone species for pollination and seed distribution. Bats are wonderful mums, keeping their babies and young ones cleaned and tucked under a wing And they have personalities. If you look at a bats outstretched wing it is like the human arm, a humerus, a radius, carpals, metacarpals, with webbing--the evolutionary design to survive, bats cannot battle other creatures, the teeth are designed to feed on fruit and nector, insects--even breaking through a hard shell on an insect, set so they can use their tongues to lap nectar. A bat on the ground is not sick, the bat may be injured, but bats cannot fly off the ground, they cannot life off, the drop into flight. If you see a bat on the ground cover with a box to protect and call a wildlife rescue, if you see a bat trapped, call wildlife rescue.
@batsandfriends9761 Жыл бұрын
Wowwww
@zieckenbritz811 4 жыл бұрын
2:36
@purpleamongus-wl3zs 3 ай бұрын
yayyayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay
@thischannelisretiringforaw9620 3 жыл бұрын
BATS ARE COOL!!!!
@catlaw1997 2 жыл бұрын
There is a bat flying around inside my house right now. I don’t like it.
@stephenleblanc4677 4 жыл бұрын
Great video...but the title does not deliver what is promised...HOW do bats take flight, literally. There are just two brief shots of bats taking off. Also, there is almost no actual science here...what are the discoveries these two have made about bats and flight? In this long form free media delivery site, including some of the meat of the science is possible and desirable.
@user-so8vb4cm2f 3 жыл бұрын
They are like rats but with wings... thats basically what it is
@purpleamongus-wl3zs 3 ай бұрын
kjges
@11kravitzn 3 жыл бұрын
I'm proud to be a mammal. Mammal flight is way better than bird flight.
@matthiafox 5 жыл бұрын
Thank god they're small...
@onyxth3ripper 3 жыл бұрын
I've said this once I'll say this again: Dragon.
@danielaarroyo1622 3 жыл бұрын
Do you think this is how a dragon's wings work
@sambenkamel 3 жыл бұрын
let's just start a new global pandemic and eat it Lol
@purpleamongus-wl3zs 3 ай бұрын
gtjkhgiwhwjgtuigguhguhuhruhwgtuhuihiwgthugt
@NightcorEDM 4 жыл бұрын
Flying humans
@TheMikeyDangelo 3 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely amazing but to think this came about by evolution i think is just illogical
@shannonnakashima7714 2 жыл бұрын
Evolution is messy, so not that illogical.
@chmueller59 3 жыл бұрын
Did they put markers on the bat's skin? Why do scientists always have to hurt animals when they want to study them?
@skyfeelan 3 жыл бұрын
Is there any other way though? also, I don't think it will hurt that much
@suyashsingh9865 3 жыл бұрын
flying mouse
@johncgibson4720 4 жыл бұрын
Viruses all over the place.
@ostr1ch303 4 жыл бұрын
*COVID-19*
@t3rrortoff33 4 жыл бұрын
shut your dumbass up. covid-19 was traced to horseshoe bats in china. simply a single animal where the virus mutated. not even a small portion of bats carry the virus, it was simply one animal, or a small group of animals, that carried the virus.
@ostr1ch303 4 жыл бұрын
@T3rrorToff33 I didn’t know that, Why you got to be so rude.
@ostr1ch303 4 жыл бұрын
I am blocking you
@ostr1ch303 4 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I sit and wonder *Why does everybody hate me* you are not helping.
@t3rrortoff33 4 жыл бұрын
@@ostr1ch303 if you don't know that maybe don't comment shit you don't know anything about
@kingumarhussain6826 4 жыл бұрын
CoronaCoronaCoronahahaha
@8941065 4 жыл бұрын
In the U.S they learn flight mechanism from bats. In China....... They grill them to death.
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